Lapierre was a strong proponent of the Meech Lake Accord, while Turner and Martin also expressed support for it, though Trudeau publicly campaigned against it and his protege Chrétien was later revealed to oppose it as well.

Lapierre also denied that there was a fiscal imbalance during an interview ; the BQ dug up an article that he had written four years ago on February 2000 where he criticized the Liberal government for cutting transfer payments which " strangled the provinces ".

Jean Lapierre, who was the afternoon drive host, also announced his departure as he returned to active politics ; as a result Morin and Chamberland exercised their option to cancel their acquisition, paying a million-dollar fee to do so.

Collins and Lapierre also wrote a book about their research with respect to Mountbatten, titled Mountbatten and the Partition of India.

Lapierre also funds a primary school in Oriya Basti, one of the settlements described in Five Past Midnight in Bhopal.

Collins and Lapierre also acknowledged that other eyewitness accounts claim that the event at Deir Yassin was a battle and not a massacre.

Lapierre commented that that it would help the Liberals if the Royal Canadian Mounted Police could " lay some charges already " in the sponsorship probe.

Lapierre was neutral at the 2006 Liberal leadership election, where Stéphane Dion was elected Liberal leader.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

Bouchard was joined by five of his fellow Tories, Nic Leblanc, Louis Plamondon, Benoît Tremblay, Gilbert Chartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, Gilles Rocheleau and Jean Lapierre.

Soult was born at Saint-Arnans-la-Bastide ( now Saint-Amans-Soult near Castres in the Tarn département ), the son of a country notary Jean Soult ( 1726 – 1779 ) and wife Brigitte de Grenier, paternal grandson of Jean Soult ( 1698 – 1772 ) and wife Jeanne de Calvet and maternal grandson of Pierre François de Grenier de Lapierre and wife Marie de Robert.

Lapierre was appointed to cabinet as minister of state for youth and amateur sport and his tenure was brief as Turner called an election four days after being sworn in, which the Liberals lost.

Lapierre himself has maintains that he was never really a separatist and that he was the " red of the rainbow " in a temporary ad hoc rainbow coalition, saying that he wanted a level playing field for Quebec.

As a talk show host, Lapierre was free to speak his mind and some have speculated that he may find the rules of politics to be somewhat constraining, in particular the requirement to stay " on message.

In the 2004 federal election, Lapierre was expected to deliver the vote in Quebec, but in the wake of the sponsorship scandal, this was a difficult task.

When Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe tried to link Liza Frulla to the Sponsorship Scandal, saying that her 2002 byelection campaign was funded by members implicated in Adscam, Lapierre described it as " the cheapest thing you can do — try to start gossip that has no foundation ".

Lapierre ensured that due process was followed in dismissing Pelletier a second time.

Justice Francois Lemieux ruled ruled in March 2007 that the Martin government acted improperly in 2005 when it fired Pelletier a second time, immediately after a court overturned his first dismissal as head of Via Rail, stating that Lapierre was biased and failed to follow proper procedures.

Lapierre retained his position as Quebec lieutenant for the 2006 election and he was personally re-elected without much difficulty, though with a reduced margin.

Lapierre afterwards planned to announce that he would not run for re-election in Outremont, saying that his " commitment was to Mr. Martin for one mandate " and that he felt " personally and morally relieved of his obligation " after the party paid tribute to the outgoing Liberal leader at the Montreal convention.

On January 11, 2007, Lapierre announced that he was going to retire at the end of the month.

Justice Francois Lemieux ruled that then-Transport Minister Jean Lapierre, who fired Pelletier the second time, was biased and failed to follow proper procedures.

After the resignation of Jean Lapierre on 28 January 2007, a by-election was called for 17 September 2007.

Her paternal great-great-grandfather, Louis-Joseph Bachelet Lapierre, was a French wine merchant from Chassagne-Montrachet who emigrated to Chile with his Parisian wife, Françoise Jeanne Beault, in 1860 hired as a wine-making expert by the Subercaseaux vineyards in southern Santiago.

Freedom at Midnight ( 1975 ) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947.

In 1965, Collins and Dominique Lapierre published their first joint work, Is Paris Burning?

Collins became the godfather of the Lapierre ’ s first child, Alexandra.

Freedom at Midnight ( 1975 ) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947.

In the first session, A1 Team Great Britain's Robbie Kerr topped the timesheets with a 1 ' 34. 675, followed by A1 Team France's Nicolas Lapierre just 0. 023 seconds behind.

A1 Team France took their first pole position in A1GP with an impressive qualifying session by Nicolas Lapierre.

Lapierre took the 10 points and France's first A1GP race win to continue the team's perfect weekend.

When Gilles Duceppe decided not to enter provincial politics after Bernard Landry resigned as Parti Québécois leader, Lapierre called him a coward.

This was due to the event in the Imola sprint race, where Lapierre started with a fuel load with which he wouldn't have been able to finish, set a fastest lap and retired soon after.

Most of his albums have been produced by Yves Lapierre.

He appears in the film Waltz with Bashir and in the novel The Fifth Horseman, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

As Minister of Transport, Lapierre initiated the Pacific Gateway Strategy, signing air transport agreements with China and India and completed a formal Canada-US Open Skies Agreement.

The team competed in the GP2 Series since its beginning in 2005, winning races with drivers José María López and Nicolas Lapierre.

* Larry Collins ( writer ), author of several historical books, mainly in collaboration with Dominique Lapierre ( Is Paris Burning ?, O Jerusalem!

In 2005, the F3000 series was rebranded as the GP2 Series, Arden stayed on for the new series and achieved second place in the teams ' championship with Heikki Kovalainen and Nicolas Lapierre, and second place in the Drivers ' Championship with Kovalainen, who had 5 wins, 4 pole positions and a fastest lap to his name.

In 2006, Arden competed in GP2 with Lapierre and the rookie Michael Ammermüller ( Neel Jani acted as a substitute for Lapierre when the latter was injured in the race at Monaco ).

On Saturday, February 10, 2007, Emery was suspended three games from the NHL for striking Montreal Canadiens forward Maxim Lapierre with his stick on his face, after Lapierre crashed into Emery's net.

While serving in the public affairs office of the Allied Headquarters in Paris, from 1953 – 1955, he met Dominique Lapierre with whom he would write several best-sellers over 43 years.

Shortly before his death, he collaborated with Lapierre on Is New York Burning?